Country Girls Cuteness

Here's a really quick finish for Friday!

While I was waiting to get some thread to finish up the blue star quilt I whipped out this adorable baby girl quilt.

And when I say whipped it out I mean cut to done in less than a day.  I just love when cute fabrics come in these easy breezy cheater prints (Riley Blake are you listening - please make more)!  It occurred to me as I was quilting this that these types of prints are just so handy for beginner quilters or those who hate piecing.  

My daughter pieced her first doll quilt a few days ago and I could tell her attention span was waning by the third row and even though she finished the top she hasn't quilted it yet.  I think I may try her on some of this fabric to try the quilting so she can finish a project quicker.  It's so much more encouraging and exciting to kids if they can finish up the project in an hour or two.

The front is made from Tasha Noel's Country Girls collection.  It is a full piece of this wonderful patchwork pattern.  There are at least 18 different types of squares in this print.  It would have taken a million years to cut out that many different squares and then another million to piece them all together.  

The back is a whole piece of the main print which is also super adorable with all those little girls and their country farm ways.

I quilted it in straight lines crisscrossing the patchwork squares on the front. 

The binding is made from another print in the collection which is white with little blueberry clusters.

I'm so happy with how quickly I was able to get this done and how well it turned out.  It sorta satisfied my need to use some of that fabric collection...for now:).  I still have a whole stack of the other prints from the collection just waiting for me to get to them.  

And like usual it's in my etsy shop if you're interested.

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

~ Gold Shoe Girl ~

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Blue Star Quilt

Nothing fancy today.  Just a glimpse at my newest custom order.

I am doing up the star pattern I did for the spectacular star baby quilt but this time in all blues.  My sweet customer is expecting a little baby soon and had been stashing away these fabulous fabrics.  

I finished the top yesterday and am off to find some matching thread today.  We are doing the back in one of the dark blue prints.

Here's the star when I was trying to decide the best layout.  I get all fussy about making sure the values are all spaced nicely and that I make sure I don't have all the small prints next to each other etc.  Layout is probably the one area that I spend way too much time on but I can't stand when I finish a quilt and then see 2 of the same blocks or prints too close to each other.

Today was the first day of school for my 3 kids so it is taking me a little bit to adjust to the new routine and the silence of the house again.  Although, the dog got into some garbage last night and there is nothing like the sound of an old dog belching and farting to break up the silence:).

~ Gold Shoe Girl ~

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Quick Powder Room Updates

On my last post about our powder room remodel I mentioned that I was hoping to find a little cabinet for above the toilet.  Well, unbelievably, I found one while on vacation!  Even better was that it was way below my budget and I love it.  And most unbelievably it is already hung up in the bathroom!!!

I've posted before about our cottage on Lake Ontario which we visited last week.  We've owned it now for about 9 years and when we lived in NY we were there almost every weekend during the warm summer months.  Now that we live in Illinois we try to get back for a week at a time in June, July and August.  Well, all the time that we have been at our cottage we always drove by this huge red barn selling antiques.  We always said that someday we would stop but we never did.  Well, finally last week I did stop.  And it was awesome!  Tons of dealers, nice and neat layout, super friendly staff and best of all fantastic prices.  So long story long you if you are in western NY you should spend some time at the Shawnee Country Barns Antique Coop.  

So I found the cabinet in one of the booths kind of tucked behind some other objects.  I knew it was perfect especially when the tag said $30!!!  

The outside has all kinds of dings and odd nail holes and old paint remnants.  I have the feeling it was hung up in someone's basement or garage.  It also has this weird little metal piece which I think is broken but may have been used to keep the door closed.  Who knows but I love the character it adds.  

It gives the bathroom a neat collected feeling.  I haven't filled it all up yet but you can see the inside is just right size for a few rolls of tp and our often used tube of mom's magic cut cream otherwise known as polysporin.  

Now you may have remembered that I also wanted to replace the old faucet.  While it was aesthetically what we wanted functionally it was corroding around the bottoms of the pieces and the cold water side turned on backwards.

Well, I searched and searched and hemmed and hawed, and finally, I found a new faucet in my ideal price range at Lowes.  I had every intention of installing it myself, but I could not get that darn old one off.  I had the plumber in and it took him a bunch of muscle to get the darn thing off.  It made a huge rusty mess all over the floor too.  While it was a bummer to pay the plumber, it was nice because he also replaced all the rusting icky pipe stuff underneath and he fixed the sink in place so it no longer turns and wiggles.

The new faucet looks great and works like a faucet should work.  In case anyone is interested I bought the cute little hand towel yesterday at Target for just $7.99.  

I figured I deserved a little treat after taking 3 kids school supply shopping - which btw does anyone else find it ridiculous that one teacher would request 60 (not kidding 60) presharpened pencils?!?!?!  I mean that equates to my kid using up at least 1.5 pencils each week of school.  How does anyone use up that many pencils?

~ Gold Shoe Girl ~

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